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README.md

Content

  • app.csv - selection of good Android apps
  • special.csv - special purpose Android apps that don't make sense for everybody
  • archive.csv - Android apps that I used at some point but currently don't because there are abandoned, outdated, there are better alternatives, the author turned the app into nag-ware, the author turned the app into ad-ware and/or I currently have no need for it
  • func.sh - shell functions for interacting with the device
  • termux-package.list - good default package selection for Termux
  • pip-package.list - useful Python packages that aren't available in the Termux repository

Preliminaries

Some of the below commands use the adb command (the Android Debug Bridge), which is e.g. part of the android-tools Fedora package. For it to work one has to enable the Developer options on the android device (cheat code: tap several times on the build-number in the about-phone settings). The developer options contain a 'Android Debugging' switch that has to be enabled. ADB works over a standard USB cable and is cryptographically secured (the device has to learn the host's fingerprint and thus displays a confirmation dialog).

Commands

Pretty print a CSV file:

$ column -s, -t app.csv

Extract a list of app ids from your 'my apps' page from your Google Play account (cf. https://play.google.com/apps):

$ sed 's@<a@\n<a@g'  myapps_juser.html \
   | grep '^<a href' |  grep https://play.google.com/store/apps/details \
   | awk -F'["=]' '{print $4}' | sort  > juser.ids

Get a list of app ids that are installed on a phone:

$ function adids { adb shell 'pm list packages -f' \
   | awk -F '[:=]' '$2 !~ /\/system\// {print $3}' | sort }
$ adids > nexus.ids

Display the app ids that are not part of the Google Play account:

$ comm juser.ids nexus.ids -13

Display the app ids that aren't installed, yet:

$ comm juser.ids nexus.ids -23

Display the already installed app ids:

$ comm juser.ids nexus.ids -12

Go to the app page in the google store:

$ function adview { firefox 'https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id='"$1" }
$ adview org.videolan.vlc

Start installation of an app from your workstation:

$ function adinstall { adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d 'market://details?id='"$1" }
$ adinstall com.termux

Explicitly specify the Google Play Store app:

$ function adinstall { adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d 'market://details?id='"$1" com.android.vending }
$ adinstall com.termux

Explicitly specify the F-Droid store app:

$ function fdinstall { adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d 'market://details?id='"$1" org.fdroid.fdroid }
$ adinstall com.termux

Termux

After the Termux app is running and the openssh package is installed, installing the default package list is basically just a matter of setting up ssh. For example:

Inside termux:

$ termux-setup-storage
$ pkg install openssh
$ mkdir -p .ssh
$ chmod 700 .ssh
$ cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys    # copy and paste a pub key
$ chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys
$ sshd                           # listens on 8022, any username goes
$ # Aquire Wakelock in Termux Android notification

On a workstation (pkg is a wrapper around apt, there is also apt-get):

$ < termux-package.list ssh android.example.org xargs pkg install
$ < pip-package.list ssh android.example.org xargs pip install --user

Some initial setup (inside termux):

git clone https://github.com/gsauthof/utility.git
git clone https://github.com/gsauthof/user-config.git config
cd config/
git submodule update --init
bash install.sh
cd ..